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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York must necessarily be personal and limited--personal since the relative value of a few plays in about 70 can be nothing else then that, and limited because a resident of Boston can not possibly see all the plays which come and go at an unheard of rate...
...gifts. As an answer to this sentiment which, though its essential truth may be doubted is certainly receiving sufficient publicity to warrant discussion, comes the statement from the Hadmon Foundation of New York. The Foundation proposes that scholarships be granted as loans to be repaid with a low rate of interest by the recipient when he is in a position to cancel the obligation. And the Foundation presumes that such a condition would not be possible until the student had been many years out of college. The only exceptions to the rule of repayment would be "those who plan...
...week, wooden tugs armored with iron plates gnawed at the solidifying ice. Masters poured oil into the waters to retard the rate of freezing. It takes more cold to freeze fouled water than pure. But the weather was 20° below zero and the tugs had to do their work. They would back off 300 to 400 feet from the pack. Then with a snarl of steam they would dash at the ice, only to be bounced by their own recoil. Yet at each attack a bit of ice did crumble to their bites...
...CREAM ... ¶ There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME'S Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶ They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported...
...only relative to the amount of business accomplished on the Stock Exchange floor. Thus, in 1914 the daily trading averaged 460 000 shares and a seat was worth $94,000, or 20? a share. This year the daily trading has averaged 1,548,460 shares, which (at the 20? rate) would make a seat worth $309,700. At $170,000 the cost of daily trading is about 11? a share...